Browsing Scholarly Articles by Duke-affiliated Author "Kuran, Timur"

This festschrift, featuring 26 papers by 36 authors, is a fitting tribute to Hollis Chenery who, for over three decades, has been one of the luminaries of development economics. Most of the issues he brought into focus, ...

He makes us first of all realize that being black in the world of economists does make a difference. And then he tells a story in which fortune has the better part with him as the unwilling participant who nevertheless ...

The collapse of socialism and its centrally-planned
economies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has
raised a host of critical questions for all concerned with the
ideological future of mankind. Does this ...